All Ferraris to get carbon ceramic brakes starting in 2008

[Zafiro]

Press Release - Braking system with Carbon Ceramic Material (CCM) discs

Brakes featuring CCM discs offer much more responsive braking as well as consistently excellent performance in intensive use. One of the most obvious advantages to adopting them is their exceptional fade resistance - fade in fact compromises the driver's feeling of control when it comes to the pressure required on the brake pedal and responsiveness.

The CCM discs have a longer life under normal conditions, a fact that has clear financial advantages. Furthermore, even with continual track use, CCM brakes offer greater resistance to wear for better durability on track. The CCM braking system also cuts around 15 kg off the car's total weight which not only improves overall performance but also reduces unsprung mass and thus improves vehicle dynamics and ride comfort.

On the 430 Scuderia in particular, the CCM braking system is specifically designed for the car and has unique brake dimensions which are aligned with the car's extreme performance characteristics. The diameter of the front discs has been increased (+18 mm vs the F430) which offers an improved effective radius and thus more efficient braking. Combined with specific 6-pot callipers, the front brake discs dissipate the extra heat created by the higher performance delivered by the 430 Scuderia.

 

[Centurion]

About time. The cars are already astonomically expensive and they bake the brakes into the cars, jack up the price 5-10% and nobody will complain.

 

[Bruce]

Damn rights Luw. It's about bloody time. They've been milking this whole carbon ceramic brake thing for far too long.

 

[Centurion]

They've been milking this whole carbon ceramic brake thing for far too long.

Thank you Bruce, now flashbacks of the 599 option list are brought back to life. They charge like $1 500-2 000 for a freaking disc changer and had crazy price tags on things like red stitchings and silver calipers. 666% horror!

 

[Zafiro]

Its about time Porsche and Lamborg do the same for their cars.

 

[PanterroR]

Its about time Porsche and Lamborg do the same for their cars.

And BMW for M cars...

 

[Monster]

Ferrari will just increase the price of their car to cover the cost of the brakes. Since they are making it in larger numbers, Ferrari can probably reduce the production cost per brake, so they can make even more money.

 

[Zafiro]

And BMW for M cars...

Maybe .... but for cars in the same pricerange as F, P and L, ceramic brakes is a must...

 

[PanterroR]

I agree.

 

[Imhotep Evil]

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^ CCM brakes aren't that expensive per se, it's just that some are greedy. F1 Carbon-Carbon brakes are vastly superiour to Carbon-Ceramic brakes and cost F1 teams between 1500 to 4000 dollars.
So why are CCMs so expensive ?!

 

[Imhotep Evil]

And BMW for M cars...

Amen to that.

 

[martinbo]

I have a massive problem with options lists.

They're a sneaky, underhanded means of improving profitablity on what is already an expensive machine.

In SA the CCM brakes on the R8 and S8 are a R 100,000.00 option! Bloody ludicrous. Surely there are certain fundamentals in car spec that can be agreed upon by the Germans? For example, BMW with its 3 series: Any car with a six cylinder engine, then Xenons are standard. Plain and simple. Any Porsche with a GT3, GT3 RS, Turbo, GT2 moniker should get CCM brakes standard. At the current price too dammit.

Manufacturers need to look at more innovative ways of bringing all-round product value to the consumer than by merely loading up on the options list.

 

[Centurion]

^^
I fully agree. All those high performance 911s should unquestionably come standard with PCCB.